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I agree about seasonal pitches suiting some at different times in their lives, I can see why you enjoyed yours.
Yes Brue It was very good of the site owner to store FOC and to site. Also a very friendly site. There was a separate are of stics. Owners had to be off site for two weeks in December. One couple used to live there in the week and go home at weekends to see grand kids. If fishing on site I would often slip quietly out of the caravan at 6am to fish. Main baits on site were bread mixes, sweetcorn etc. However I often bought some maggots locally and would leave them in an open container alongside and birds would come alongside and take them. I often watched the local fox as well. Ducks would sleep in groups on the grass and the local fox would walk quietly around them to hunt elsewhere. I would often get a tap on the shoulder if fishing on site at about 8am to be passed a bacon sandwich and mug of tea.
On most evenings I would pop to the onsite pub about 9pm. A lot of locals used it and it was a friendly atmosphere. The site owner who ran the pub was a wonderful raconteur.
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Our daughter is wondering about a fully electric car when she needs a new one, but the problem would be charging it up at home. Do they need a dedicated charging point?
They do have their own private parking spaces right behind their back garden, but no outside socket or anything, and her consumer unit and breakers and meter etc are the other side of the house. Floor is concrete so no chance of getting a cable from the front to the back of the house.
Plenty of sockets in the kitchen, though that would mean opening a window to plug in.
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I got a phone call from Smart car sales to ask if I wanted to change to a new electric Smart car but I said it was too early to change as I have only had this one for less than a year!
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I've been sitting out in the awning in the relaxer for most of the morning. Lunch is on the go and will be ready in about 10 minutes. Although it has been a bit grey and overcast, it's been nice and cool. However, it looks as though the clouds are clearing a little and the sun is coming out.
Later we'll be taking the awning down in readiness for tomorrows move to Lancing Fruit Farm. Tomorrow is a day off from work but back on for Friday.
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We keep getting e mails from them about changing the Smart, ours is 4 years old but done less than 12000 miles, we will not be changing it anytime soon.
Would not mind an electric one, looked at them at the time, but they were far too expensive.
As our daughter often uses it too, we also need to think about how she could charge it up. No problem for us as we have driveway, and garage with power points.
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Our daughter is wondering about a fully electric car when she needs a new one, but the problem would be charging it up at home. Do they need a dedicated charging point?
As I understand without a dedicated charge point they can take a lot longer without a dedicated charging point. 'The National Grid expressed concerns that an average size 3.5kW battery charger would take 19 hours to fully charge a car battery, even when it is 25 per cent full.'.
Obviously if in a semi or detached property it is always possible to bury suitable cable outside. After all many detatched garages are serviced this way.
Probably simple enough to spur a supply to outside anywhere but not with a higher speed charge rate.
Two bits of reading as a starter.
http://www.charging-solutions.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwumtoJ3t1QIVbpPtCh16Dg1XEAAYAiAAEgLBGPD_BwE
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You can do either Kj, I think OH will install a point if he goes ahead, because he's looking at hybrid the charging can also go on via the small fuel system etc. I'm not the technical one but am trying to learn! On the hybrid the mpg is around 130 or more.
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There is usually a way to get a new supply where wanted K. In the last house I wanted a new supply to the kitchen for oven and hob. The original supply had been pinched/re-run to supply a high wattage shower. I cut the electricity company's seal of the main fuse and installed a new supply that was routed in a chase up to the bedrooms and then under floor and down into kitchen.
(Then reported that there was no security seal on the main fuse and had not been since my occupation)
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Cloudy and warm/humid today here on the East Kent area.Pumped rainwater out of my boat ,first time this year ,not much in there.A few repairs too.Got home to find my new purchase waiting for me .The "Wolf Impact Wrench" 18v li-ion,1/2 inch drive,with a variety of sockets to suit most wheel nuts.Strong heavy bit of kit !! Should make it VERY easy for caravan steadies too !! I think a bargain at £99-98.
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We visited Lanhydrock House today. In all our years of visiting Cornwall we've never been before, but it was well worth it. The gardens are simply stunning at the moment; you could easily spend half a day just walking round them. Amongst the various beds I spotted this flowering yucca which I believe is quite rare ( the final photo).
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The house itself is just as fascinating - as we had the dogs with us we took it in turns to look round and just allowed an hour each but you need much, much longer to do it justice. Still I've seen the way I expect drinks to be laid out and the table set at mealtimes from now on!
Although I don't think I can run to kitting out the kitchens quite as extensively as this!!
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Lovely photos Moulesy, have been to Lanhydrock a few times, quite a big house to walk through, if I remember a lot of emphasis on the kitchens for us lesser mortals.
I think the gardens everywhere are really good this year, they seem to have had the right weather.
My gardening eyes tells me that's a pink Canna in the photo? The garden colours look fanatstic, wish I could see it.
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'Plenty of sockets in the kitchen, though that would mean opening a window to plug in.'
KjellNN, another answer would be for a qualified electrician to run a Steel Wired Armoured (SWA) cable from your unit to the outside wall then round the house to the point at the rear where it is needed.
The only problem might be total electrical load on your distribution box and whether or not a suppliers fuse needs to be upgraded. Your electrician should be able to work this out for you.
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Sounds wonderful Goldie, hopefully I will be chilling like that next week when on holiday!
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Great pictures Moulesy, we didn't get time to visit Lanhydrock last time we were in Cornwall, must get round to planning a second visit.
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If she was detached or semi, that would work, but she has a 3 storey mid terrace town house, so no wall of her own to run a cable round.
Concrete ground floor, nowhere to conceal a cable inside the house, so fitting a charging point looks to be impossible without it having to run in ducting on the surface of the walls in 3 rooms, which I very much doubt she would like.
Maybe a hybrid car would be the best idea.
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My sister-in-law in Norway had a Toyota Yaris (I think) , she never plugged it in. She has just changed it after about 5 years for a newer one, I think still a Yaris, it does not need to be plugged in either, which is good as she lives in a flat so has nowhere to plug in!
Seems to me that flat dwellers and many terraced house dwellers are going to find it very difficult if we all have to change to cars that need plugged in. Have the powers that be really thought this through?
Sounds like a nightmare in the making, especially for city dwellers.
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Have the powers that be really thought this through?
Sounds like a nightmare in the making, especially for city dwellers.
I haven't read the government statement. I consider it is probably on a 'wish list'. If you think of the rise in electric consumption during advertisement breaks for major TV events then that is nothing compared to when all return from work and plug in an electric car. I cannot see that the load will be equally spread through the day nor that all work and car parking will have provision any time in the mid term.
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